Word: maters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gracious tribute is paid in the new bronze tablet erected at Princeton to the honor of those who have served their alma mater by long hours of vigil on the side line benches. The words, "In appreciation of our Princeton football scrubs--past, present, and future" graven on the walls of the field house near the dressing room of the scrubs justly recognizes the men who day by day have given their time and taken the knocks to put the winning polish on the first eleven. Where the roaring plaudits of loyal backers comes to university athletics, gratitude...
...sympathy of the press and therefore the goodwill of the public. Now Harvard gets at least her fair share of public goodwill as far as her athletics are concerned, and since even Harvard alumni read the papers, this very important body is well disposed towards its Alma Mater, willing to kick in when the various appeals are made from Lehman Hall...
...religious sect. It is possible for a man to get an education without going to college. But why do it: Why not receive the instruction and direction the college is able to give. In the same way, the church is or should be our religious alma mater...
President Little thought that education ceases never. He suggested a plan whereby graduates of Michigan could continue to study at their alma mater by taking a series of correspondence courses. This vast project (Michigan has nearly 70,000 alumni) he called the Alumni University. Soon letters were pouring into Ann Arbor, alumni-instruction pouring...
Also, looking toward the deeper study of diplomacy, Myron Charles Taylor* gave $1,500,000 to his alma mater, the Cornell Law School, to build a Myron Taylor Hall for law students & faculty. Wrote he, in making the gift: "It is well to stress the importance of the study of languages . . . particularly French, which is the diplomatic language of the world, and, if possible, Italian and Spanish. . . . It is to be hoped that ultimately such a centre or college of law will be developed and will embody within its courses in international law one of diplomacy, that it may permit...